Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cd2ba6809cbbec6e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

100.4 KB
MD5: 1c10e942d18b3577877e8ca3d1012a9c SHA-1: 4352219f4a095804463c87ffb46dcd8d7adbde51 SHA-256: cd2ba6809cbbec6ef3be0ad1f415bc29ca6a1961c14f1a303b3b2f3b396b95df
118 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious File

The PDF file contains an embedded script payload, indicated by the PDF_EMBEDDED_SCRIPT_PAYLOAD heuristic and confirmed by ClamAV detection as Pdf.Exploit.Agent-6136306-0. The ML classifier also flagged it as highly malicious. The XFA form structure suggests it is designed to leverage XFA-specific vulnerabilities for script execution, likely to download and execute a second-stage payload. The embedded URLs are not directly indicative of malicious activity but are part of the document's structure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 4

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-6136306-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-6136306-0
  • Embedded script payload in PDF stream medium PDF_EMBEDDED_SCRIPT_PAYLOAD
    PDF stream bytes contain an HTML/XFA <script> tag without accompanying Windows shell-execution primitives — common in accessible XFA forms but worth surfacing for analyst review.
  • XFA form low PDF_XFA
    PDF uses XML Forms Architecture — can contain script logic
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL http://ns.adobe.com/xdp/
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-template/2.5/
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-data/1.0/

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_pdf_script_00000246.bin
1907da15779dd34d80ccea9db6d5e4761a8421856cc7e6d09e5f7c26dba4b1e9
pdf-embedded-script PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x246 102040 bytes